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… forms of grace, But change is everywhere, And time is all our share And all the ways of space. One lives an hour of day; One even man’s life exceeds; One loves to chase and slay; One loves to sing and play; Each soul to his own deeds ! A share of joy is ours, A double share of grief; So sum the many hours In many hopes and powers, All powers except the chief. Emotion fills our souls, And love delights us well, And joy of sense full rolls ; But leads us, and controls Life’s céntral citadel. Whence we were drawn who knows? Of law or Gods or chan…
1907 · PDF PAGE 217
LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 231 Idalian Aphrodite, strong as fair, Strong not to loosen Godhead’s crown by deed To blind eyes not a God’s Life, Apollo in his splendour, whom I praise Most, being his, and this song his, and his All my desire and all my life, and all My love, albeit he hath forsaken me. These are One God in many: praise ye Him ! : and praise pure AGAVE, We praise indeed who made the choral world And stars the greatest, and all these the least Flowers at our feet: but also we may praise This Dionysus, lord of life and joy, In whom we…
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
…ll this In that one rapture of the kiss I knew, and all creation’s pain Fell into nothing in my brain, As I, remaining man, involved All life’s true purpose, and dissolved The phantoms (of itself create) In a mysterious sweet state, Wherein some tune began to move Whose likeness and whose life was love. Roll, strong life-current of these very veins, Into my lover’s soul, my soul that is! Thrill, mighty life of nerves, exultant strains Triumphant of all music in a kiss | Fade! fade, oh strenuous sense Into the soul intense Of life beyond your we…
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
…ping down the street, That youth—scarce thirty—bowed like sixty?” ‘* Oh, A woman jilted him.” ‘‘ Absurd!” ‘ Con- ceit ! Some youths take life—are Puritans, you know!” I heard it, sitting in the window—glowed, Rushed to my wife and kissed her. Lithe and young The rapture of some ardent madness flowed ; And — bye-and-bye —its miracle found tongue. Guess, guess the secret why I burn for you These years so cold to woman as I was! Guess why your laugh, your kiss, your touch run through My body, as it were a tunéd glass ! 1 Holy Queen-—one of the man…
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GARGOYLES BEING STRANGELY WROUGHT IMAGES OF LIFE AND DEATH 1907 TO L. BENTROVATA. Nec tamen illa mihi dextra deducta paterna Fragrantem Assyrio venit odore domum sed furtiva dedit muta munuscula nocte. Go sunnily through my garden of flowers, dear maiden o’ mine, and once in a while you ‘that man had no place therein. every garden is the world; and in the world these are. So every cathedral is the world, and the architect of Notre Dame deserved his heaven. To me life and death have most often appeared in majesty and beauty, in solemnity and hor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…Insurance Companies. It will never do for his Christ to be a man of like passions with himself, else people might expect him to aim at a life like Christ's. He wants to wallow and swill, and hope for an impos sible heaven. So that it will be imprudent of you (if you want to be asked out to dinner) to poin out that if you tell the story of the life of Christ, without mentioning names, to a Musulman, he will ask, ‘‘ What was the name of that great sheikh?” to a Hindu, ‘‘Who was this venerable Yogi?” to a Buddhist, ‘‘ Haven’t you made a’ mistake o…
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IMAGES OF LIFE 93 Its maddening measures in my heart and brain ! Is it that so the wheel may whirl again, That some dull devil in my ear may show me: ‘‘For John the Baptist’s head—so danced Salome !” ? VIII. Then, in God’s name forbear! It does not matter. Life, death, strength, weakness, are but idle chatter. Nothing is lost or gained, we know too well. For heaven they balance us an equal hell. We discard both; an infinite Universe Remains; we sum it up—an infinite curse. So—amIaman? I lack my wife’s embrace. Am I outworn? I see the harlot’s f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
…my superb caresses, When on myself myself begets a child, A system of a thousand planets piled ! Iam: the least, the greatest: the frail life Of some small coral-insect still may tremble With love for me, and call me queen and wife ; The shy plant of the water may dissemble Its love beneath the fronds; reply to strife With strife, and all its tiny being crumble Under my rough and warrior husband-kiss, Whose pain shall burn, and alter, and be bliss! I am: no word beside that solemn one Reigns in sound’s kingdom to express my station, Who, clothe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
…me back to me! | no sleep | Could be so deep. O you that were my lover and my wife! The last pale lotus opens to the skies. Come back to life! | Open your eyes ! Come back, breathe softly from the breast of Lift the blue eyelids under the deep lashes Till one light flashes! old . These arms enfold. Wake with one supreme sigh like the old Give me your lips and kiss me once! O wife, sighs ! Come back to life! Open your eyes ! Nay, let the wind but stir the silky hair, : (God’s lesser air, ‘I cannot leave you so, Eurydice. Not His full blossom of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…he shape and colour Fade, fail, are lost in the sepulchral seas. WINTER. Know ye mychildren? From the old strong breast Not weary yet of life’s grey change, not drawn Into the utter peace of death, the rest Of the dim hour that lingers ere the dawn, Spring these that laugh upon thee. In the snow See forests bare and gaunt, Where wingéd whispers haunt, Lighting the dull sky with a slumberous glow ; Hear the strange sounds of winter chaunt; Feel the keen wisdom of the winter thrill Young hearts with passionate foretaste Of death in some wild wast…
1907 · PDF PAGE 178
…abide. Timid and fleet the earth Comes rushing back to birth, Brighter and greener, radiant with gold Of a diviner sun, An exultation Of life to life, of light to light untold. I? I remain, and see Across eternity My lover’s face, and gaze, and know the worth Of love’s life to the glowing earth, The kiss that wakes all life unto a better birth. So the swoon broke. I saw the face (Shining with Love’s reverberate grace) Of my own love across the lawn, As warm and tender as the dawn Tinting the snows of heaven-born hills, Enamelling the mountain r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…As if he cried for breath. Whereat the second beat his breast And frowned upon the West. Then the man sighed, as if to say : The glow of life is gone away. At this the rusty and wroth released His eyes against the East. Then the man touched his navel, as He felt his life thence pass. Also he smote his spine; the base Of life burnt up apace. Then rose the many-coloured sage ; He was right sad with age. With him arose the ruddy and fair ; He was right debonair, They twain to upper air and lower Advanced the eyes of power. Ay! but above the dead m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 153
… And with frail fingers smooths and touches them. They murmur in their sleep: the moonlight dips And laughs, seeing how young buds catch life from these Child-kisses on the stem. The leaves laugh low, and_ frosty-footed Time Shoulders a lighter burden ; in the dale Some distant notes of lovely music climb, Thrown from the golden-throated night- ingale, Pale sobs of love and life With death and fear at strife, Fiercely beset and hardly conquering, When spring’s bright eyes at last Flash through the sullen past, And tune its pain to tears, its pe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
… deep as the sea ; Thy music is darkness to me. CALLIOPE. Child of Thracian sire, on me begotten,. Knowest thou not the laughter and the life ? Knowest thou not how all things are for- gotten, — . | Being with a maiden wife ? How a subtle sense of inmost being Wraps thee in, and cuts the world away ; Sight and sound lose hearing and lose seeing, All the night is one with all the day ? Hearken to her sighing ! Life droops down as dying, Melting in the clasp of amorous limbs and hair; All the darkening world Round about ye furled— Dost thou know,…
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… the fierce and the mild ; Polymnia grave ; and the girth Broad-girdled of gold and desire, Melpomene’s terrible lyre, That lifts up her life in the wild, The star-piercing pean, and floats in mid- ether, and sinks to the earth. These three of the Muses were mine; They nurtured and knew me and kissed. Erato was hidden in wine; Polymnia dawned in the mist: Melpomene shone in the pyre Ofterrors that burned in her lyre; But all of their passion divine I lost in the life and the stress of the world ere ever the soul of me wist. But, Orpheus, thy sp…
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162 ORPHEUS Whose moony glimmer hath a purple vein Hidden—so I athirst of the sad stain Drink up her body’s life, as if to spite Its quiet, as if the venom were to drain Into my life—that hurts me not at all, Struck by a stronger buffet: let me call All deaths! they come not, seeing I am broken In this one horror where a man may fall. I am alive, and live not: I am dead, And die not: on my desolated head No dew may drop, no word of God be spoken, None heard, if by some chance some word be said. The wheels of Fate are over me; quite crushed Lies…
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…d Splendour! dost I, knowing all the progress of the earth, The dim procession, altering death and birth, The Seven Stairs, the gusts of life in fire And Love in Life, and all the serpent girth Of sevenfold twining worlds and sevenfold ways And nights made sevenfold of the sevenfold days All the vast scheme evolving into man, And upward, onward, through Olympian haze Into the crowning spiritual mist, Where spirit in the spirit may subsist, Evolve itself in the amazing plan Through many planes, as shining amethyst Melts to the sapphire’s sombre …
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
…des or swoons ; the idle elf That plucks a rose, scatters its petals wide, Is like the wind, is like the moon-wrought tide, Is most like life: so soft to man, so hard To the all-gathering brain of a great bard| Christ answered: Peace to man amid the strife | I am the Resurrection and the Life. Let the graves open: see the woman grip Her goodly love, her gainful fellowship ! - See the man, hungry, grasp the willing bride, Grope through the dark dawn to her glow- ing side! There is the resurrection trump: confess The mystery of life is happiness …
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132 ORPHEUS Ye fieriest flowers, Life-stream of the world, In passionate bowers Of mystery curled, Come forth! for the powers Of my crying are hurled :— Come forth! O ye souls of the fire, where the sound of my singing is whirled ! Ye blossoms of lightning, Bare boughs of the tree Of life, where the brightening Abysses of sea Reveal ye, the whitening Swords kindled of me. Come forth ! I invoke thee, O lightning, the flames of the Gods flung free ! THE LIGHTNING. The wand of Hermes, the caduceus wonder-working, Sweeps in mid-zether— Where we are…
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…oved, him dead, O Hebrus, ever downward on thy bosom iron-red ! RIVER HEBRUS. All Nature’s tunes are dull. The beautiful, The harmony of life is null. CALLIOPE. What unto us remains But in these broken strains To hymn with voices jarred the jarred world’s shriek of woe? O!0! RIVER FELEBRUS. This discord is an agony Shuddering harsh in me; My waters will empoison the fair fresh-water sea ! CALLIOPE. Nay ! all is ended now. Cover the beaten brow ! Carry the brain of music into the wide Aggean ! No priest pronounce thy pzean Ever again, Apollo, Th…